The camera module is the most integral part of an AI-based embedded system. With so many camera module choices on the market, the selection process may seem overwhelming. This post breaks down the process to help make the right selection for an embedded application, including the NVIDIA Jetson. Camera module selection involves consideration of three key aspects: sensor��
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It is one thing to identify a bird in the wild based on how it appears. It is quite another to identify that same bird based solely on how it sounds. Unless you are a skilled birder having a Big Year, identifying birds by sound is likely to be quite challenging. A group of mathematics, computer science, and biology researchers from the University of Marburg in Germany devised a way to��
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The NVIDIA Jetson Orin Nano Developer Kit sets a new standard for creating entry-level AI-powered robots, smart drones, and intelligent vision systems, as NVIDIA announced at NVIDIA GTC 2023. It also simplifies getting started with the NVIDIA Jetson Orin Nano series. Compact design, numerous connectors, and up to 40 TOPS of AI performance make this developer kit ideal for transforming your��
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Check out object detection solutions, 360�� camera views, and more from NVIDIA Jetson ecosystem partners this week at Embedded World in Germany.
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The 65th annual Daytona 500 will take place on February 19, 2023 and for many this elite NASCAR event is the pinnacle of the car racing world. For now, there are no plans to see an autonomous vehicle racing against cars with drivers, but it��s not too hard to imagine that scenario at a future race. At CES in early January, there was a competition to test the best autonomous racing vehicles.
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Building on the momentum from last year��s expansion of NVIDIA Jetson edge AI devices, the NVIDIA Jetson Orin NX 16 GB module is now available for purchase worldwide. The Jetson Orin NX 16 GB module is unmatched in performance and efficiency for small form factor, low-power robots, and autonomous machines. This makes it ideal for use in products like drones and handheld devices.
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NVIDIA JetPack provides a full development environment for hardware-accelerated AI-at-the-edge on Jetson platforms. Previously, a standalone version of NVIDIA JetPack supports a single release of CUDA, and you did not have the ability to upgrade CUDA on a given NVIDIA JetPack version. NVIDIA JetPack is released on a rolling cadence with a single version of CUDA��
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No one likes standing around and waiting for the bus to arrive, especially when you need to be somewhere on time. Wouldn��t it be great if you could predict when the next bus is due to arrive? At the beginning of this year, Armenian developer Edgar Gomtsyan had some time to spare, and he puzzled over this very question. Rather than waiting for a government entity to implement a solution��
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Starting today, the NVIDIA Jetson AGX Orin 32GB production module is available for purchase. Combined with the world-standard NVIDIA AI software stack and an ecosystem of services and products, the road to market has never been faster. The NVIDIA Jetson AGX Orin 32GB module delivers up to 200 trillion operations per second (TOPS) of AI performance with power configurable between 15W and 40W��
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They say ��imitation is the sincerest form of flattery.�� Well, in the case of a robotics project by Polish-based developer Tomasz Tomanek, imitation��or mimicry��is the goal of his robot named Mariola. In this latest Jetson Project of the Month, Tomanek has developed a funky little robot using pretrained machine learning models to make human-robot interactions come to life.
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Experience the ��Summer of Jetson�� now through Sept. 30, with quizzes, prizes, and a project showcase to learn about the joys of working with the Jetson Nano developer kit.
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American chess grandmaster and the eleventh World Chess Champion Bobby Fischer once said, ��All that matters on the chessboard is good moves.�� Easy for him to say. But, if you are new to the game or looking to get better, how can you know that the moves you are making are in fact good ones? Wouldn��t it be great if you could analyze your game, play by play? To address this problem��
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Availability of the the NVIDIA Jetson AGX Orin Developer Kit was announced today at NVIDIA GTC. The platform is the world��s most powerful, compact, and energy-efficient AI supercomputer for advanced robotics, autonomous machines, and next-generation embedded and edge computing. Jetson AGX Orin delivers up to 275 trillion operations per second (TOPS). It gives customers more than 8X the��
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Are you a fan of synthesizer-driven bands like Depeche Mode, Erasure, or Kraftwerk? Did you ever think of how cool it would be to create your own music with a synthesizer at home? And what if that process could be enhanced with the help of NVIDIA Jetson Nano? The latest Jetson Project of the Month has found a way to do just that, bringing together a Eurorack synthesizer with a Jetson Nano��
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The holidays should be a time for relaxation, and with NVIDIA Jetson technology, you can do just that. The latest Jetson Project of the Month comes from a developer who has created ways to simplify home automation projects, using a combination of DeepStack, Home Assistant, and NVIDIA Jetson. Robin Cole, a senior data scientist at Satellite Vu with a background in physics��
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Modern expectations for agile capabilities and constant innovation��with zero downtime��calls for a change in how software for embedded and edge devices are developed and deployed. Adopting cloud-native paradigms like microservices, containerization, and container orchestration at the edge is the way forward but complexity of deployment, management, and security concerns gets in the way of scaling.
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A media server provides multimedia all-in-one features, such as video capture, processing, streaming, recording, and, in some cases, the ability to trigger actions under certain events, for example, automatically taking a snapshot. For you to make the best out of a media server, it must be scalable, modular, and easy to integrate with other processes. One typical example is a GUI to control��
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NVIDIA TensorRT is a high-performance deep learning inference library for production environments. Power efficiency and speed of response are two key metrics for deployed deep learning applications, because they directly affect the user experience and the cost of the service provided. Tensor RT automatically optimizes trained neural networks for run-time performance, delivering up to 16x higher��
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Each November for the last decade, Tsukuba City in Japan has run a 2,000-meter race unlike just about any other in the world. What��s unusual is not the terrain �C spanning parks, city streets, even indoor shopping malls �C or the speed, the pace is a leisurely stroll. It��s the participants: each is an autonomous robot. The event, called the Tsukuba Challenge, gives robots the difficult task of��
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The NVIDIA Jetson team was in Seoul, Korea last week at ROSCon. More than 450 attendees from across the globe trekked to the conference to learn and network with the ROS (Robot Operating System) community. As a Platinum sponsor, and backer of the Open Source Robotics Foundation for the past three years, NVIDIA is a supporter of the ROS community and its international set of academic and��
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The latest update to the NVIDIA Deep Learning SDK includes the NVIDIA TensorRT deep learning inference engine (formerly GIE) and the new NVIDIA Deep Stream SDK. TensorRT delivers high performance inference for production deployment of deep learning applications. The latest release delivers up to 3x more throughput, using 61% less memory with new INT8 optimized precision.
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Today NVIDIA released a major update of the JetPack SDK with new developer tools and libraries that doubles the performance of deep learning applications on the Jetson TX1 Developer Kit, the world��s highest performance platform for deep learning on embedded systems. JetPack 2.3 is available as a free download and is focused on making it easier for developers to add complex AI and deep learning��
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Records were made to be broken, and drones are no exception. Teal Drones unveiled its first production product, Teal, a Jetson TX1-powered drone capable of flight speeds in excess of 70 mph. That makes Teal the world��s fastest production drone. But Teal is as much a flying supercomputer platform as it is ��just�� a drone. Set to ship with an SDK and its own operating system �� Teal OS ��Teal is��
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A team of students and alumni from UC Santa Cruz developed a prototype device called Raven that clips onto a GoPro camera and automatically tracks a selected target with the help of computer vision. Enes Mentese, cofounder of Raven, thought of the idea for the device after he filmed his snowboarding experience and majority of the video was of sky and the ground. By using an NVIDIA Jetson TX1 and��
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Robert Bond, an NVIDIA engineer, created an ��ant annoyer�� using deep learning and a Jetson TK1 developer kit to pinpoint ants scuttling across his kitchen floor and target them with a 5 milliwatt laser beam. Robert mentioned the project was not even practical before he got his hands on the Jetson board, which puts unprecedented computing performance in a low-power��
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Leading camera drone manufacturer DJI unveiled their new NVIDIA Tegra TK1-powered ��Manifold�� embedded computer this week. Now, developers can transform aerial platforms into truly intelligent flying robots that perform complex computing tasks and advanced image processing in the sky. ��Designed for developers, the Manifold��s built-in Ubuntu operating system supports CUDA, OpenCV, and ROS��
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Skype co-founders have launched a company that plans to send GPU-based robots to the homes of consumers for local deliveries. The idea is that the deliveries will be sent to a central hub from which the six-wheeled, electric-powered autonomous robots, outfitted with a hollow center and a lockable carrying case, will make deliveries to customers�� homes in five to 30 minutes. In terms of capacity��
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For $200, AlemHealth has created Alembox which allows physicians to tap into a global network of radiologists and other specialists to get accurate diagnoses quickly. The box will allow physicians in developing countries high-quality, low-cost health IT services over a 3G mobile connection where the latest medical equipment, personnel and expertise may be scarce. Developed with the Jetson��
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Today, cars are learning to see pedestrians and road hazards; robots are becoming higher functioning; complex medical diagnostic devices are becoming more portable; and unmanned aircraft are learning to navigate autonomously. As a result, the computational requirements for these devices are increasing exponentially, while their size, weight, and power limits continue to decrease.
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